DOCTORS working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed
critically ill patients rather than leave them to die in agony as they evacuated.

With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through
wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision to
give massive overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make
it out alive.

One New Orleans doctor told how she "prayed for
God to have mercy on her soul" after she ignored every tenet of medical
ethics and ended the lives of patients she had earlier fought to save.

Her heart-rending account has been corroborated by
a hospital orderly and by local government officials.

One emergency official, William Forest McQueen, said:
"Those who had no chance of making it were given a lot of morphine
and lain down in a dark place to die."

Euthanasia is illegal in Louisiana and the doctors
spoke only on condition on anonymity.

Their families believe their confessions are an indictment
of the appalling failure of US authorities to help those in desperate need
after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city, claiming thousands of lives and
making 500,000 homeless.

"I didn't know if I was doing the right thing,"
the doctor said.

"But I did not have time. I had to make snap decisions,
under the most appalling circumstances, and I did what I thought was right.

"I injected morphine into those patients who were
dying and in agony.

"If the first dose was not enough, I gave a double
dose.

"And at night I prayed to God to have mercy on
my soul."

The doctor, who finally fled her hospital late last
week in fear of being murdered by the armed looters, denied her actions
were murder.

"This was not murder, this was compassion. They
would have been dead within hours, if not days," she said.

"What we did was give comfort to the end. I had
cancer patients who were in agony. In some cases the drugs may have speeded
up the death process.

"We divided the hospital's patients into three
categories: Those who were traumatised but medically fit enough to survive,
those who needed urgent care, and the dying.

"People would find it impossible to understand
the situation.

"I had to make life-or-death decisions in a split
second.

"It came down to giving people the basic human
right to die with dignity.

"There were patients with 'do not resuscitate'
signs. Under normal circumstances some could have lasted several days. But
when the power went out, we had nothing.

"Some of the very sick became distressed. We tried
to make them as comfortable as possible.

"The pharmacy was under lockdown because gangs
of armed looters were roaming around looking for their fix.

"You have to understand these people were going
to die anyway."

Mr McQueen, a utility manager for the town of Abita
Springs, half an hour north of New Orleans, told relatives that patients
had been "put down", saying: "They injected them, but nurses
stayed with them until they died."

Mr McQueen, who worked closely with emergency teams,
added: "They had to make unbearable decisions."

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